Angie's Quilts n Bks n Life

about the next quilt being for me??  Ain't going to happen.  The next two are for dear friends.  I guess I could at least say they are ufo's that are going out the door LOL!.  Ah me, and this one I am going to post (that I finished a couple of weeks ago) is a philanthropy quilt. 

I tried something different for the quilting part since it was 61 by 68.  I used the fusible batting.  I sewed the center together and then marked the center of the back, batting and top and fused it.  Then I quilted the center.  It was easier to do with out the borders.  Then I sewed the inner borders with the flip and sew method.  I then sewed one of the side borders on, flipped it and fused it and then quilted it.  These had to be done as partial seams because of the way they had to be pieced, but the quilting was easier as I could just concentrate on the one border.  It was easier to quilt than I expected, doing it this way,  and I may do another that way to reduce the bulk of the quilt I have to work with. 

This quilt is going to a hospital in San Diego for a wounded soldier.  The color is off in the picture as I had to take it inside and the quilt was too close to the kitchen light, but it gives you the idea.  

Oh and yes, I've added some more books to my bookshelf.  
2006-2007 Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co. Catalog
 Irresistible Forces
 Big League Sales Closing Techniques
 A True Story of a Single Mother
 A True Story of a Drunken Mother
The Goddess and the Bull
Pretty: The Nylon Book of Beauty
Everything Conceivable
 Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
Easy Applique Samplers
Log Cabins (Mini Classics)

We're thankful that it is raining here.  It's on and off with wind in between, but we need the rain and glad that we are half-way to the area's usual for the season.
Stay dry and warm,
Hugs to you!!

First it was a bad crown - the dentist couldn't see me for three weeks.  By the time they saw me the root was well infected and the whole tooth had to come out.  Then the pain returned and two more molars loose!  Fortunately, it was the trauma from the pulling that caused that and then a week of acetominophen and back to normal for now.  Then a touch of vertigo - one can't do much when that comes on.  I also seem to get an electrolyte imbalance when I eat too much salty food, so another week gone as I tried to deal with that.  In the meantime, I try to keep up with grandson and email and not much else.  Hope to post a quilt picture and a review, but for now just wanted to say I'm still here.  Hope to get back to quilting soon as I found an great new site that has a BOM (block of the Month for you non-quilters) that is really nice and a challenge.  I bought a book entitled Quilt Mavens - Perfect Paper Piecing by Deb Karasik and Janet Mednick (ISBN: 1574329193) which should help me to conquer sharp points.  I've added a few more books to my for sale in the Needlecraft quilting category - once I make the quilt I want and learn the technique, I like to pass these on to other quilters, so check them out at Angie's Bookshelf .

As to reading I have picked up and interesting work by Jared Rosen and David Rippe recommended on the Simple Living Newsletter from the Simple Living Network - It's about turning your world around -from an upside-down world to a right-side up one.  Can't tell you much at this point - just started it- but it could be life changing...

Until later - take care of your teeth!

Just finished a Home of the Brave quilt.  If you have never heard of them, visit http://www.quiltersmuse.com/donald_beld_interview_June_2006.htm and learn about Don, the originator of the project, and his quilting.  The top I just finished is at the quilter's, so when it comes back I'll post a photo.

With that said, I'm now reading An Introduction to the History of Christianity - from the Early Church to the Enlightenment by George Herring.  I'm not far into it, but already I am taken by his approach - he is exploring how Christianity has shaped and been shaped in its turn by the secular world.  I've read several histories of the Christian religion in trying to get a handle on how it grew and what happened at the beginning after Christ.  One was from a historian's perspective and that really created a lot of questions, but made it more real because he tied in so many things mentioned in the Bible with actual events from that period.  Then I read three by Edward Bauman:  An Introduction to the Old Testament (2 vols) and An Introduction to the New Testament.  I highly recommend those to anyone who wants to know the "heart of the matter" without all the scholarly facts that some writers populate their books with on a topic.  It's like they can't help themselves and they want to tell you all the information and their opinion, and the main idea gets lost.  Mr. Herring's book is like Mr. Bauman's.   So far he hasn't covered Christianity in complete detail, but does cover events in chronological order.  I look forward to reading more. 

Some other books I have read and up for new readers can be found at:  http://tinyurl.com/yw88a9

May the Lord be with you, today and always.

I love books! But I do do other things and one of these is quilting.  Here's my latest effort.  This is called Spring Blossoms and the pattern was designed by Shelly Swanland.  It uses her machine cathedral window technique.  It went together pretty easily - she has wonderful directions.  Quilting is very soothing to me and when I have something that is worrying or stress related, I go quilt and feel the tension fall away.  I have other books on quilting that you might be interested in.  You can find them at:  http://tinyurl.com/2zqk7r